✓ More than just the measure of how effectively resources are used to produce outputs.

✓ Using less to create more – working smarter, not harder.

✓ A mindset that continuously aspires to better ways of accomplishing tasks and conducting business.

✓ “Doing what I do today better than I did yesterday and even better tomorrow”.

✓ Creating and delivering Superior Value (quality goods and services at the right time/speed, with the least cost

✓ Continuous improvement (KAIZEN in Japanese)

By productivity we refer to Total Factor Productivity and not only Labour Productivity (which is mostly construed as cost reduction and job destruction).

At the heart of productivity is the individual.

✓ an organisation can only become more productive through continuous upgrading of knowledge, skills, discipline, effort and collaboration.

Guest 1 on the line: Mothunye Mothiba, CEO of Productivity SA